won 9 international awards, including 4 Global Music Awards, reached #2 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Charts. Early life and education Mendieta was born and raised in San Francisco, California, to a Spanish and Latin American family. Her parents played a number of musical instruments and encouraged their seven children to learn an instrument at a young age to study music, art, and dance. She first played the harp at the age of seven, when she began studying the Salzedo method at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of popular Israeli harpist Efrat Zaklad. She continued her studies at San Francisco State University and at Stanford University with Marjorie Chauvel and graduated with honors from Notre Dame de Namur University with a Bachelor's Degree in music. She has also studied privately with the San Francisco Symphony’s principal harpist Doug Rioth and with world-renowned harpist Alice Chalifoux at the Salzedo Harp Colony in Camden, Maine. Awards and honors Global Music Awards - Anna Maria Mendieta - Tango Del Cielo Album 2022 Bronze Medal for Best Music Video "Oblivion" (with filmmaker Cristian Pablo Ardito, Libres Del Mundo Productions) 2021 Silver Medalist for Best Album “Tango Del Cielo” 2021 Silver Medal - Best Instrumentalist 2021 Silver Medal - Editing & Mixing “Tango Del Cielo” Album Clouzine International Music Awards 2022 - Best Music Video “Oblivion” (with filmmaker Cristian Pablo Ardito, Libres Del Mundo Productions) 2020 Best Classical Crossover Album - “Tango Del Cielo” Album 2020 Best Music Video “Libertango” (Libres Del Mundo Productions) LIT International Talent Awards 2021 Most Artistic Music Video “Oblivion” 2021 Best Show “Tango Del Cielo” 2013 American Harp Society Grant Commission recipient for a concerto to be composed for her. Mendieta is the only harpist to have twice received the “Matz Memorial Award” from Lyon & Healy Harp Company for “Outstanding Achievement”. Notable performances Played for: President Bill Clinton President Mikhail Gorbachev King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain NFL 2022 Super Bowl VIP Pre-game Event George Lucas Pope Benedict XV Colin Powell George Shultz Francis Ford Coppola Lindsay Wagner Featured instrumentalist - Theater Flamenco of San Francisco 2006 American Harp Society National Harp Conference. National Hispanic Week in Washington D.C. Spoleto Festival The Central Intelligence Agency Celebrity Concert Performances: Andrea Bocelli Josh Groban Frank Sinatra Jr. Olivia Newton-John Fernando de la Mora Barry Manilow Johnny Mathis Moody Blues Frederica Von Stade John Denver Charlotte Church